The sound that is heard when a mini-nuclear weapon is fired is the sound of Bethesda's dinner bells.
Med-X was originally called morphine, but in order to get MA15+ (instead of getting classified) in Australia they had to make this small change, Bethesda then decided to use this edit for all world editions, ironically this worked in the field of games, as there were never any real drugs in the world in the series since they always had fictitious names.
A picture of the father and mother of a Lonely Wanderer, James and Catherine, can be found in the game Fallout: New Vegas, inside Vault 21.
Many quest names are also the names of songs from the 50s
The cars in the game are based on the nuclear powered Ford Nucleon concept car. This explains the radiation caused by their destruction.
When the robot Mister Gutsy is killed, his last words are the words of marching during the All-Metal Shell Boot Camp (1987). Mr. Gutsy is designed to have the personality of a shooting sergeant.
In the caves of Little Lamplight, the mayor's name is RJ McCready, an obvious reference to the main character from the movie “Something” (1982).
The sound when using VATS matches the sound that was used at the beginning and end of the battle in the original Fallout.
The opening sequence is a reference to a landmark opening in Fallout 1. Including the narrator's famous line “War... War never changes.”
The New Testament of the Bible has the Book of Revelation, the book from which the quote in the game is taken. There is an author in the New Testament named James. This author wrote about the anointing of the sick. Anointing is a ritual performed in the Christian religion that is believed to rid the sick of any dangerous influences. James, the father of a lonely wanderer, heads the project “Purity of the project”, dedicated to ridding the waters of the wasteland of any radiation. In fact, James anoints the wastelands by injecting clean water into the water sources.
Production for Fallout 3 began immediately after The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Lesko from the quest Those! may be a reference to Lesko's character from Phase IV (1974), a film about two scientists studying hyperintelligent ants.
The glass pyramid in L'Enfant Plaza was demolished in 2013.
At the Nuka Cola factory, reading the marketing strategy of Nuka Cola Quantum, it became known that the slogan was supposed to be “Take a leap... Try Quantum!” , a nod to the Quantum Leap (1989)
After accepting the Nuka Cola call, while at the Nuka Cola factory, a robot that provides you with the password to the cargo manifest terminals. The password is 'NCC1864'. This is the registration of the USS Reliant from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Quest “Those!” is an obvious reference to the 50s film Them! (1954).
In addition to real-life cities like Springfield and Cliffside, the game developers' office can also be found in the game. The destroyed Bethesda Softworks building is located in the southeast of the map.
In the village of Arefu, you can get a quest to investigate the murder of local residents and search for a missing boy. This is a reference to the legend of Count Dracula. The quest leads to the Mereshti station, a cave in Transylvania has the same name, and a vampire named Vance lives at the station itself.
In Rivet City, there are several planes on the deck, their nose looks like a smile.
There is a safe in the floor in Billy's Megaton house, the code of which is 15-16-23-42, this is a reference to the TV series Lost. You can find out the code by taking the "Eternal Child" perk and talking to Maggie.
In the Technical Museum, you can find several references to real events. For example, on one of the plaques with descriptions of the exhibits, you can read about astronaut Carl Bell, who was the first to make a space flight in the Defiance-7 capsule. In fact, America sent its man into space on the Freedom 7 spacecraft, and then he was the second after Yuri Gagarin.
There is a crashed flying saucer near the Griner Paschers landfill. You can find it by the radio signal that your Pip-Boy will pick up. Near the UFO lies the corpse of an alien in a protective spacesuit and an alien blaster with cartridges.
In addition to real-life cities like Springfield and Cliffside, the game developers' office can also be found in the game. The destroyed Bethesda Softworks building is located in the southeast of the maps
